- #1 Rise Under the Warstorm
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Automation 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.4%, Tower Defense 11%, City Builder 10.5%
- #2 Fio and the Doomed City
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Tower Defense 13%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #3 Age of Respair
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 11.2%, Automation 9.2%
- #4 Hold The Roost
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jody Hiatt
Windows
A strategic tower defense where you command a flock of chickens to gather resources, fortify defenses, and survive relentless predator attacks. Balance growth and survival as you protect the next generation through treacherous nights against tactical predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 15.3%, Automation 11.8%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #5 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,435 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 15%, Colony Sim 13.1%, Economy 10.6%
- #6 Windowed Realms
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12%, Real Time Tactics 8%
- #7 Sylox
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, City Builder 20.5%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8%
- #8 Deep Space Directive
92% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Base Building 17.1%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Automation 13.2%
- #9 Virum:Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 10%
- #10 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
91% matchMixed62% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Automation 13.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Wargame 9.2%
- #11 Radia Island
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Automation 11.4%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #12 Buoyancy
90% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14%, Pirates 9.7% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #13 Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parsons Goldman Jones and Co
Windows
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, Automation 20.2%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Wargame 8.6%
- #14 Aven Colony
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,778 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 26.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 5.1%
- #15 Rise to Ruins
87% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 20.6%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 5.1%
- #16 CivDle
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Star Software
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 18.1%, Automation 16.6%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #17 Comet Tycoon
85% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Automation 18.9%, City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Resource Management 13.5%
- #18 Stronghold HD (2012)
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,424 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.2%, Tower Defense 11.5%
- #19 Outlands
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 22.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 9.8%
- #20 SkillGrid
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Automation 14.3%, Strategy 11.2%
- #21 Planet Barren Objective
84% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Automation 14.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.5%, City Builder 11.5%
- #22 Mox Modular
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows
Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 26.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Economy 12.9%, Simulation 6.2%
- #23 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
81% matchVery Positive86% of 10,318 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 18.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 9.7%
- #24 Towerfolk
81% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, Wargame 8.6%
- #25 Oxygen: First Breath
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 19.1%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 10.5%
- #26 Compact Colonies
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9.3%
- #27 Crow's Nest
80% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Polyburg Studio
Windows
Embark on a journey in this city builder game, crafting and managing your own pirate island. Keep your crews satisfied and your captives in check, all while sending your ships out to gather gold from your nautical adventures.
Why similar: Pirates 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 9.2%
- #28 Kingdom Workshop
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 12.8%, Economy 11.7%
- #29 Our Freedom: Prologue
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.9%
- #30 Cog Foo
77% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Automation 18.9%, Base Building 16.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #31 Founders' Fortune
79% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 6.6%, Economy 5.6%
- #32 Empires Edge
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Wargame 10.9%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #33 Territory: Farming and Warfare
75% matchVery Positive85% of 754 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Automation 14.3%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
- #34 HZ Industry
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sade_112
Windows
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 20.8%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Automation 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%
- #35 Frontera
76% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Economy 13%, Simulation 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #36 Wall World Strategy
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 14.6%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #37 Magnery Reign
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 11.6%, Wargame 10.9%
- #38 Wah!Topia
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kobalto Games
Windows
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 22%, Tower Defense 15.5%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 10.8%
- #39 Beyond These Stars
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 13.4%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #40 The Crust
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,711 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Automation 17.7%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #41 Factory Town
74% matchVery Positive91% of 4,473 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Automation 18.3%, Base Building 16.8%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #42 Settlements Rising
71% matchVery Positive81% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Tower Defense 7.2%
- #43 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
70% matchVery Positive92% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 34.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Tower Defense 10.4%
- #44 Isla Paradiso
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 24.3%, Economy 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #45 Bergfried
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quid Pro Games
Windows
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 18.3%, Tower Defense 11.4%, Real Time Tactics 10.8%, Wargame 10.4%
- #46 Stelvyr: Colony Defense
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CannyEdge Interactive
Windows
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 10.1%
- #47 Stronghold 4
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Tower Defense 11.8%, Real Time Tactics 11%, Wargame 10.6%
- #48 Cliff Empire
72% matchVery Positive87% of 4,368 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.3%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #49 Recovery Syndicate
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #50 Seventh Colony
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GeneralFR
Windows
Seventh Colony is a steampunk colony-management and alien horde-defense game set within a fortified industrial settlement surrounded by a hostile volcanic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 18.2%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Wargame 10.5%
- #51 CircuitVeil
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Automation 20.2%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 9.8%, Simulation 9%
- #52 Tactical Warfare: Siege Survival
68% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2024
Dev: Mizrab
Windows
Immerse yourself in Tactical Warfare, a captivating mini-game of the base game where you defend your base against relentless enemy waves. Strategize, fortify, and survive to emerge victorious. Wishlist now for exclusive access to the playtest and full game on November 29, 2024!.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 16.9%, Tower Defense 11.2%, Real Time Tactics 9.9%, Automation 9.7%
- #53 The Blighted Frontier
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%
- #54 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,466 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Automation 13.3%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #55 Greedy Little Kingdoms
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zlorky
Windows · Mac
A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 18%, Automation 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #56 Spaceflight Factory
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 15.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #57 Kingdom Square
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mete İlhan
Windows
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 21.1%, Automation 10.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Base Building 9.1%
- #58 Crowded Blue Dot
69% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 19%, Resource Management 14.6%, Simulation 5.9%
- #59 Tutankhamun – Builders of the Eternal
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TreeByte Software
Windows
A 3D city-builder where you farm the Nile, worship powerful gods, train armies, trade with distant regions, and construct monumental works worthy of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 9.6%
- #60 Alien Horizon (Preview Alpha)
66% matchVery Positive86% of 205 reviews2024
Dev: Purple Nebula
Windows
A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.2%